Business: Surplus Sock

Christmas was still a month off but
many a potent corporation last week began opening its surplus sock and
doling out extra dividends. A round dozen announced extras and specials
amounting to nearly $10,000,000, bringing November's total dividend
declarations to $347,000,000, highest since February 1932.

Tobacco shares made the most news when P. Lorillard Co. declared a $1 extra,
the first since 1917, and George W. Helme Co., famed snuff makers,
announced a $4.75 extra special, a $2 customary special, and a regular...